[INDENT]Nikola Tesla’s Power tower was finally completed, 150 years after he himself started its construction. The realisation of the tower provided human kind with global free energy making batteries, power plugs and fossil fuel obsolete. Although economy received a hit it quickly regained strength when robotics became easily available. Because there was no need for batteries in these new robotics, as the resource was almost infinite, they became more powerful and complex to do bigger jobs. Also Cybernetics for medical treatment became available because of the more advanced research in robotics. Tesla’s Tower also had the ability to change the weather, using it to advance agriculture. Seasons could be controlled while nature kept itself in balance by shifting natural occurrences above the oceans.
While the human race reached it’s utopia it didn’t realise that Tesla’s gift had a negative effect on the world’s biological stability. The energy that was transferred over the globe was transmitted on the same frequency as a brain uses. Although this didn’t seem to have any effect at the beginning it slowly started to have effect on the mental state of all the animals on the planet. Wild animals in the few national parks that were still left became more aggressive and captivated animals broke free more often as they were harder to keep calm.
The effect of depression became more noticeable when the crime rate went up all over the world. Almost every demonstration ended in violence and riots while politicians were more busy talking about waging war instead of keeping the peace. Wars soon started among civilizations, attacking each other for racial, ethical or other non territory reasons.
While the human race was busy attacking each other with robotics and cybernetic enhanced soldiers a new hazard was endangering the planet. The dramatic weather changes that the human race created had effect on the ionosphere of the planet which protects the earth from solar flare radiation. Solar flare radiation started to affect life on earth, letting the human race know that is was in its first phase of its annihilation. Specific areas on the globe became unhabitable, killing millions of people within days. While some wars ended, having other things to worry about, the European Union started the production of the biggest robotic army ever build. Their agenda was to take over the last remaining people on earth, uniting the planet and clean it from war.
They were quickly stopped by an unknown force (underwater civilization) as their main base of operations was destroyed. A team of scientists realised their defeat and programmed the automated army of robots to destroy any enemy of the Union, letting it be controlled by an artificial hive Intelligence.
After years of destruction and war a rebellious group of scientists found a way to destroy all the teslas towers in existence by using a reverse EMP pulse that would turn every tesla tower into a small nuclear explosion. Although the earth was already radiated and the destruction of the towers would be the end of the technological age, it was their last hope of destroying the rogue robot army and saving the human race.[/INDENT]
(Sara=mars colony)
Interesting way to end it. the surface is hell, the twenty some power plants that energized the world are gone.
There may be some independent power plants, all belonging to the rich and paranoid (NRA has two) that have survived, heavily fortified. along with the aquans. You should model the underwater base after blue dome from blue sub no. 6.
some of your power groups would be the low power nuts from before the fall. NRA, the Amish, south american drug lords, and the Aquans.
as water blocks EM very well, the aquans would have independent power supplies (mostly nuclear) and geothermal.
America and most of the EU will be uninhabitable between bad weather and radiation. China too. Japan will be up there. Russia is Russia. Africa, south America, Australia, Russia and parts of Canada are your choice of setting. They survived because there is nothing to blow up.
Antarctica will belong to your ocean people, ad the north pole. Used for their green houses.
Philipines will probably be my adventure location as i do need the hazards for excitement, nice variation of cities and jungle(= monster source). using multiple islands is the reason it hasn't all been destroyed by the rogue robots.
New powersources will be indeed of the rich and paranoid, but also old half-working powerplants of the old age. Main powersource will probably be batteries though as you don't need a powersource to create them.. just chemicals.
i have no idea yet what i'll do with the aquans although i do know they'll be the source of the highest technology and also genetic manipulation stuff... anyway, still have to work it out (suggestions are appreciated). They probably have fusion plants or something... probably one per dome (no idea how many domes there will be)
I want to give the campaign a Retro sci-fi feeling, so i'll be using gaint robots, shrinking devices, doomsday devices, mad scientists and other stuff i can find.
i was thinking of doing something with spacetravel but it will probably be something like martians with puls weapons and experiments of exchanging body parts of different animals (making new monsters)
anyway, thanks again for your reply, greatly appreciated
Make the aquans spooky isolationists, they have a few organizations secretly trying to help get the world back on its feet, but they are all doing it back stage.
here, we got 3 dome types
type one: mostly for reasearch, it has open docks and is buried under grounds, it gets all its power from the cheep and dependable geothermal power
then you have type 2.
the scale is twice as big, each square 60m*60m
it has a covered docking facility with air that hold the submarines in giant docking cradles that can elevate and stack them for storage.
it as a much greater population, industrial abilities, and reactors (but still has a geothermal backup system.
Then type 3, it is what the capitol is.
they are surrounded by battery powered stationary defense and traffic control robots.
The scale is again twice as big, to 120m a square. the huge dome may lower and close in case of attack. but most of the structure is still under ground. still both geothermal and reactors power it, but both are needed.
there are many industrial faculties and even mines in operation, creeping out from near the geothermal station. It is huge 3 km side to side and almost a mile high.